I HAVE PROOF CLEMENS DIDN'T USE STEROIDSSee, the picture above clearly shows Clemens wasn't roiding when this picture was taken during the World Series. It was so simple to see even back then. This whole Mitchell investigation was clearly a waste of time. With that being said I am now mailing off my wish list to Santa Claus. I really want that Playstation 3 and I know Santa Claus is going to bring it to me.

LET ME ASK YOU THISWhy would former New York Mets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski lie? I have no hard feelings for Radomski other than the fact that he supplied ILLEGAL steroids to tons of major league players. Radomski has no reason to lie and implicate players who did not actively cheat or seek his services. Don't be pissed at the guy who rats out people because everybody is responsible for their own actions. It makes me laugh when people are presented with evidence that their favorite player or team was involved and yet don't believe that these guys were doing it. Did you honestly think that Barry Bonds was the only douchebag doing it? Get your fucking heads out of the sand and come up for air people.

Listen, I'm an enormous Baltimore Orioles fan and even I knew that Brian Roberts more than likely used some sort of illegal substance. I'm a huge BROB fan because of all his charity work around Baltimore and admire his attitude in regards to baseball. I've even had the opportunity to meet him and he came off as a great guy. But with that being said it doesn't mean he hasn't cheated himself and the game of baseball by using a banned substance. We need to accept the fact that "good guys" use steroids or HGH.

I am one of the last people to judge these guys because even I get it when players use the stuff because they want an edge. There are millions of dollars and dreams at stake in the high rolling world of Major League Baseball. But it doesn't make it right to use juice even if everybody else is doing it.

After reading the report I know it's only a sliver of what actually goes on throughout the league. All of the players are pussies plain and simple. Some will call it honorable not to rat out their boys but I think what they have done to the game is the most unhonorable thing you can do to the actual game. Don't get mad at George Mitchell for not reporting the likes of Marcus Giles and Kyle Farnsworth whom I know have used steroids in the past because the players union is not talking.

THE PLAYERS UNION ARE THE DOUCHEBAGS. Be mad at them for not being honest. Be mad at them for throwing your hard earned money for $7 beers and $5 hot dogs because these assholes cheat in order to make millions off of you. These players cheated in order to make more money and have no regards to the game itself. Don't blame Mitchell for trying to find out the facts when everybody in the game of baseball wants to sweep it under the rug.

And also I wanted to give a giant FU to Peter Gammons. This guy is a Hall of Fame writer but he is also a Hall of Fame kiss ass to the players. The reporters and media are as much at fault with the steroids issue being ignored for all these years and now Gammons is saying these reports mean nothing. Your wrong Gammons, it means you didn't do your fucking job and questioned players when guys like Brady Anderson and Luis Gonzalez were all of sudden hitting 50 plus homeruns after gaining a miraculous 30 pounds of muscle during the offseason. I know Gammons is in fear of losing the player's collective trust and will no longer be drinking buddies with a lot of the players but you know what? That isn't your job. Your job is to report as objectively as possible and Gammons is among many others who isn't one.

In conclusion I'm going to be one of the few people who actually speaks up for the Mitchell report. It wasn't a waste of money. He came in trying to clean up the game and get some answers for things nobody wants to answer because everybody has their money in deep pockets full of lies and deception. Mitchell wants a clean game and so do I. He asked the tough questions that Bud Selig was too pussy enough to ask himself. Selig could have cleaned up the sport a long time ago by putting in a drug testing policy without getting the player's union approval. Seriously, fuck the player's union if they are not going to agree or vote to a drug policy. It shouldn't be their choice. It's not their game, it's the public's game and the owner's game. The players are just employees who build the product like any of us who work for somebody else. Hopefully Selig sees this now and makes the drug testing policy even more difficult. Dont' give me the bullshit excuse of collective bargaining with Donald Fehr as a reason why you can't do anything Selig. You are the fucking commissioner. Stop being a pussy and do your fucking job. For once and for all let's clean up the game without asking what the players think.

THE ROGER CLEMENS REPORT FROM THE MITCHELL INVESTIGATIONWell I just finished reading the part of the Mitchell investigation dealing with Roger Clemens. I will let you read it yourself before judging. Again this is straight ver batim from the Mitchell Report:

Roger ClemensRoger Clemens is a pitcher who, from 1984 to 2007, played for four teams inMajor League Baseball, the Boston Red Sox (13 seasons), Toronto Blue Jays (2 seasons),New York Yankees (6 seasons), and Houston Astros (3 seasons). He has won more than350 games, seven Cy Young Awards, and was the American League Most Valuable Player in1986. He was named to All-Star teams eleven times.During the Radomski investigation, federal law enforcement officials identifiedBrian McNamee as one of Radomski’s customers and a possible sub-distributor. McNamee,through his attorney, entered into a written agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for theNorthern District of California. The agreement provides that McNamee will cooperate with theU.S. Attorney’s Office. No truthful statements can be used against McNamee in any federalprosecution by that Office; if, however, he should be untruthful in any statements made pursuantto that agreement, he may be charged with criminal violations, including making falsestatements, which is a felony.As part of his cooperation with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and at its request,McNamee agreed to three interviews by me and my staff, one in person and two by telephone.McNamee’s personal lawyer participated in the interviews. Also participating were federalprosecutors and agents from the F.B.I. and the Internal Revenue Service. On each occasion,168McNamee was advised that he could face criminal charges if he made any false statementsduring these interviews, which were deemed by the prosecutors to be subject to his writtenagreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.McNamee attended St. John’s University in New York from 1985 to 1989,majoring in athletic administration. At St. John’s, he played baseball. From 1990 to May 1993,he was a New York City police officer.In 1993, McNamee met Tim McCleary, the assistant general manager of theNew York Yankees, who also had attended St. John’s. McCleary hired McNamee as a bullpencatcher and batting practice pitcher for the New York Yankees. In 1995, McNamee was releasedfrom his duties after Joe Torre was named the new Yankees manager. From 1995 to 1998,McNamee trained “Olympic caliber athletes” outside of baseball.In 1995, McCleary was hired as the assistant general manager for the TorontoBlue Jays. In 1998, that club hired McNamee as its strength and conditioning coach, and heserved in that position from 1998 to 2000.Roger Clemens signed with Toronto in 1997, after spending the first thirteenyears of his career with the Red Sox. After McNamee began working for the Blue Jays in 1998,he and Clemens both lived at the Toronto SkyDome (there is a hotel attached to the stadium).McNamee and Clemens became close professionally while in Toronto, but they were not closesocially or personally.Jose Canseco was playing for the Blue Jays in 1998. On or about June 8-10,1998, the Toronto Blue Jays played an away series with the Florida Marlins. McNamee attendeda lunch party that Canseco hosted at his home in Miami. McNamee stated that, during thisluncheon, he observed Clemens, Canseco, and another person he did not know meeting inside169Canseco’s house, although McNamee did not personally attend that meeting. Canseco toldmembers of my investigative staff that he had numerous conversations with Clemens about thebenefits of Deca-Durabolin and Winstrol and how to “cycle” and “stack” steroids. Canseco hasmade similar statements publicly.385Toward the end of the road trip which included the Marlins series, or shortly afterthe Blue Jays returned home to Toronto, Clemens approached McNamee and, for the first time,brought up the subject of using steroids. Clemens said that he was not able to inject himself, andhe asked for McNamee’s help.Later that summer, Clemens asked McNamee to inject him with Winstrol, whichClemens supplied. McNamee knew the substance was Winstrol because the vials Clemens gavehim were so labeled. McNamee injected Clemens approximately four times in the buttocks overa several-week period with needles that Clemens provided. Each incident took place inClemens’s apartment at the SkyDome. McNamee never asked Clemens where he obtained thesteroids.During the 1998 season (around the time of the injections), Clemens showedMcNamee a white bottle of Anadrol-50.386 Clemens told McNamee he was not using it butwanted to know more about it. McNamee told Clemens not to use it. McNamee said he took the385 Jose Canseco, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits and How BaseballGot Big 211-13 (Regan Books 2005).386 Anadrol 50 is the brand name for oxymetholone and, according to a reference booktargeted at steroid abusers, “is considered by many to be the most powerful steroid commerciallyavailable.” See William Llewellyn, Anabolics 2006 99 (5th ed. 2006). It can harm the liver andproduce pronounced androgenic side effects. Id. at 100.170bottle and gave it to Canseco.387 McNamee does not know where Clemens obtained theAnadrol-50.According to McNamee, from the time that McNamee injected Clemens withWinstrol through the end of the 1998 season, Clemens’s performance showed remarkableimprovement. During this period of improved performance, Clemens told McNamee that thesteroids “had a pretty good effect” on him. McNamee said that Clemens also was training harderand dieting better during this time.In 1999, Clemens was traded to the New York Yankees. McNamee remainedunder contract with the Blue Jays for the 1999 season. In 2000, the Yankees hired McNamee asthe assistant strength and conditioning coach under Jeff Mangold. According to McNamee, theYankees hired him because Clemens persuaded them to do so. In this capacity, McNameeworked with all of the Yankees players. McNamee was paid both by the Yankees and byClemens personally. Clemens hired McNamee to train him during portions of several weeks inthe off-season. McNamee also trained Clemens personally for one to two weeks during springtraining and a few times during the season. McNamee served as the Yankees’ assistant strengthand conditioning coach through the 2001 season.388McNamee first learned about Kirk Radomski through David Segui during the2000 season. Also that season, McNamee obtained Radomski’s telephone number from JasonGrimsley. McNamee wanted to buy a Lexus, and Radomski had a connection with a Lexusdealer. Radomski recalled that Grimsley was a frequent customer for performance enhancing387 McNamee stated that he showed the bottle to Canseco because he thought thatCanseco was knowledgeable and he felt comfortable approaching him. According to McNamee,Canseco volunteered to take the bottle.388 In his own interview, Mangold was reluctant to discuss McNamee in any respect.Mangold said that he was not aware of, and never suspected, any player of using performanceenhancing substances.171substances, and he produced nine checks written by Grimsley to Radomski during 2001 and2002 and fourteen checks in total.According to McNamee, during the middle of the 2000 season Clemens made itclear that he was ready to use steroids again. During the latter part of the regular season,McNamee injected Clemens in the buttocks four to six times with testosterone from a bottlelabeled either Sustanon 250 or Deca-Durabolin that McNamee had obtained from Radomski.McNamee stated that during this same time period he also injected Clemens fourto six times with human growth hormone he received from Radomski, after explaining toClemens the potential benefits and risks of use. McNamee believed that it was probably his ideathat Clemens try human growth hormone. Radomski instructed McNamee how to inject humangrowth hormone. On each occasion, McNamee administered the injections at Clemens’sapartment in New York City.McNamee said that he and Clemens did not have any conversations regardingperformance enhancing substances from late 2000 until August 2001. McNamee did, however,train Clemens and Andy Pettitte during the off-season at their homes in Houston. Clemens ofteninvited other major league players who lived in the Houston area to train with him.McNamee’s training relationship with Clemens and others has been describedpublicly. Peter Gammons reported during spring training 2001:Brandon Smith, an apprentice trainer with the Yankees, describes RogerClemens’ day as follows: “He’s one of the first players in every morning,runs, does his program with Andy Pettitte, does the team programworkout, goes to the weight room, leaves, plays 18 holes of golf andfinally meets (trainer) Brian McNamee at 6 .. . . and a few other players –for another workout. It’s incredible how much energy Roger has.”389389 Peter Gammons, Indians Expecting Better Year, espn.com, Mar. 11, 2001; see alsoGary Graves, Clemens on Fire with Desire; Rigorous Workouts Keep 38-year-old All-StarSharp, In Shape, USA Today, July 10, 2001, at C3.172According to McNamee, Clemens advised him in August 2001 that he was againready to use steroids. Shortly thereafter, McNamee injected Clemens with Sustanon or Deca-Durabolin on four to five occasions at Clemens’s apartment. According to McNamee, he againobtained these drugs from Kirk Radomski. McNamee concluded from Clemens’s statements andconduct that Clemens did not like using human growth hormone (Clemens told him that he didnot like the “bellybutton shot”). To McNamee’s knowledge, Clemens did not use human growthhormone in 2001.McNamee was not retained by the Yankees after the 2001 season. After thatseason, Clemens never again asked McNamee to inject him with performance enhancingsubstances, and McNamee had no further discussions with Clemens about such substances.McNamee stated that Clemens did not tell him why he stopped asking him to administerperformance enhancing substances, and McNamee has no knowledge about whether Clemensused performance enhancing substances after 2001.During the years that McNamee stated he facilitated Clemens’s use of steroidsand human growth hormone, McNamee’s discussions with Clemens about use of these drugswere limited. McNamee assumed that Clemens used performance enhancing substances duringthe second half of the season so that he would not tire, but they did not discuss this directly. Itwas Clemens who made the decision when he would use anabolic steroids or human growthhormone. McNamee stated that he tried to educate Clemens about these substances; he “gavehim as much information as possible.”Clemens continued to train with McNamee after he was dismissed by theYankees, according to both McNamee and press reports. In October 2006, after the Los AngelesTimes reported that the names of Clemens and McNamee were among those that had been173redacted from an affidavit in support of a search warrant for the residence of Jason Grimsley asallegedly involved with the illegal use of performance enhancing substances, Clemens wasreported to have said: “I’ll continue to use Mac [McNamee] to train me. He’s one of a kind.”390McNamee was quoted in a December 10, 2006 news article on steroids asreportedly having said: “I never, ever gave Clemens or Pettitte steroids. They never asked mefor steroids. The only thing they asked me for were vitamins.”391 McNamee told us that he wasaccurately quoted but that he did not tell the truth to the reporter who interviewed him. Heexplained that he was trying to protect his reputation.On May 15, 2007, the New York Daily News reported that Clemens had cut tiesto McNamee.392 McNamee denied that and told us that he trained Clemens after the article waspublished. He added that Clemens now has a home in the New York area, and McNameepersonally installed a gym there.McNamee stated that he has no ill will toward Clemens and “was always ahead[financially] with Roger.” McNamee received money for expenses from Clemens’s businessrepresentatives. They paid McNamee for training Clemens, and for his expenses. From time totime Clemens also gave McNamee “extra money.” Clemens never gave money to McNameespecifically to buy performance enhancing substances.Kirk Radomski recalled meeting McNamee through David Segui. Radomskiconfirmed that he supplied McNamee with human growth hormone and anabolic steroids from390 Jack Curry, Cloud Over Clemens’s Finale: He and Pettitte Deny Report, N.Y. Times,Oct. 2, 2006, at D1; Lance Pugmire, The Nation; Clemens Is Named in Drug Affidavit,L.A. Times, Oct. 1, 2006, at A1.391 See William Sherman and T.J. Quinn, Andy Totes Baggage to Bronx, N.Y. DailyNews, Dec. 10, 2006, at 56. McNamee’s interactions with Pettitte are discussed below.392 Christian Red with T.J. Quinn, Roger Seeking Workout Help, N.Y. Daily News,May 15, 2007.1742000 to 2004. Although McNamee never told Radomski the performance enhancing substancesobtained were for anything other than McNamee’s personal use, Radomski concluded thatMcNamee was distributing the substances to others based on the amounts he purchased and thetiming of the purchases.Radomski knew McNamee was acting as personal trainer for Roger Clemens,Andy Pettitte, and Chuck Knoblauch (among others), and he suspected McNamee was giving theperformance enhancing substances to some of his clients. Occasionally, McNameeacknowledged good performances by Knoblauch or Clemens by “dropping hints,” such as“[h]e’s on the program now.” McNamee never explicitly told Radomski that either Clemens orPettitte was using steroids or human growth hormone. According to Radomski, however,McNamee asked Radomski what types of substances Radomski was providing to pitchers.Radomski delivered the substances to McNamee personally. Radomski recallednumerous performance enhancing substance transactions with McNamee. Radomski alsosometimes trained some of McNamee’s non-professional athlete clients.Radomski produced four checks from McNamee that were deposited intoRadomski’s checking account and drawn on McNamee’s checking account.393 All the checkswere dated in 2003 and 2004, after McNamee said that he supplied Clemens, Pettitte, andKnoblauch. McNamee said these purchases were for non-baseball clients.McNamee’s name, with an address and telephone number, is listed in the addressbook seized from Radomski’s residence by federal agents. Radomski’s telephone records showtwelve calls to McNamee’s telephone number from May through August 2004. Radomski was393 One of the checks, in the amount of $2,400, includes a memo stating “Loan RepaySub.” Radomski confirmed that he never loaned McNamee any money and that the check hadbeen for one-and-a-half kits of human growth hormone.175unable to obtain telephone records dating back to the time when, according to McNamee,McNamee was injecting Clemens.Clemens appears to be one of the two people associated with baseball – AndyPettitte is the other – who have remained loyal to McNamee after he left the Yankees.394Clemens has remained a source of income for McNamee up to and including 2007.Prior to my interviews of McNamee he was interviewed by federal officials onseveral occasions, during each of which they informed McNamee that he risked criminalprosecution if he was not truthful. I was advised by those officials that on each occasion he toldthem about the performance enhancing substance use of Clemens, Andy Pettitte, and ChuckKnoblauch (Pettitte and Knoblauch are discussed below).In order to provide Clemens with information about these allegations and to givehim an opportunity to respond, I asked him to meet with me; he declined.

Here is a list sent to us from Deadspin.com which looks similar to mine I posted a couple of months ago. Some guys who are obviously missing from the list at first glance include the Giles brothers, Luis Gonzalez, and Greg Vaughn.

4 HOURS TILL THE MITCHELL REPORTI guess I am one of the few people who actually can't wait to see the names that are on Senator Mitchell's report. I want the sport cleaned up and I want to know what Mitchell has to say. I presume he will have scathing remarks about the player's union and the commissioner's office for sweeping the whole steroid issue under the rug for so long. But I also want to give a big shout out to all the writers who so blindly turned their back and did not report what they suspected years ago. Writers like Peter Gammons who think the Mitchell Report will do nothing because they didn't have the balls to report it in the first place.

One of the biggest names has supposedly been leaked and it's none other than Roger Clemens. No big shocker there, he was one of the players I named a while back. Automatically for me this disqualifies Clemens for the Hall of Fame. I don't want to hear the argument from sympathizers saying "but steroids wasn't a banned substance in baseball!". I don't give a rat's ass if it was or not because I know it is banned by our country to possess without a proper prescription. Getting them from a jerk off ball boy is not a pharmacist. If we are going to shit on Barry Bonds for ruining the integrity of the game then we need to do the same thing to Clemens. He is as much at fault with this drug culture as anybody.

Anyways, I will wait to hear the final report from Mitchell before talking about this anymore.

Oh yeah, good trade by the Baltimore Orioles yesterday sending Miguel Tejada(interesting timing) to the Astros for 5 players. Lefty Troy Patton could become a solid 2-3 starter in the league and the O's needed to start fresh by getting rid of some heavy salaries. Erik Bedard is next but to whom I have no idea.